Noirmont Point:

Noirmont Point and a substantial part of the headland behind it was acquired by the States in 1950 as the Island’s war memorial, but sadly very few Jersey residents today are aware of this. It is a strange irony given its status as a memorial of a war in which Jersey was occupied by the Germans for five years, that probably the main reason for visiting the headland is to view the restored bunkers and gun emplacements of Batterie Lothringen, the only naval coastal artillery battery in the island and part of Hitler’s infamous Atlantic Wall. If nothing else, however, the purchase has ensured that this headland, which forms the western end of St Aubin’s Bay, remains one of the few relatively unspoilt areas of the south coast of the island, with the exception of the concrete structures, which for many years were left undisturbed as a lasting memory of the dark days of the German Occupation.

More recently they have been restored by members of the Channel Islands Occupation Society with interior displays which show what they would have been like when they were built to defend the island against any attempt by the British to recapture it.

In Jèrriais (the ‘local’ language of Jersey) the name is Nièrmont. The French form of the name follows the Jèrriais rule of the colour adjective preceding the noun: Noirmont. Both forms translate into English as the ‘Black Mount’.

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